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According to the legend, this strikingly beautiful hill has miraculous healing powers.

After four years of grasshopper plagues, this chapel was erected as a plea to God to make them end.

A shop for all your magical needs and notions.

A science teacher's dream.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

Easily overlooked in favor of the wineries that dot the region, this blast from the past is equally worth the visit.

A wondrously macabre treasury of obscure antiques and unusual oddities.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.

This striking royal residence is the largest Renaissance-style castle in Scandinavia.

This Norman castle was once the site of a Victorian-era prison, and now exists as a luxury hotel.

A crescent of 12 simple statues poised on a small windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

The 19th-century pharmacy (now a used bookstore) was featured in James Joyce’s "Ulysses," and has changed very little to this day.